Benchmarking Best Practices of Demand Responsive Transit Systems

This report presents the results of a nationwide study on Demand Responsive Transit (DRT) involving 62 large transit agencies and 12 small transit agencies. It evaluates the impact of implemented technologies and practices upon productivity and operating costs. The analyses involve technologies and practices such as a paratransit computer aided dispatching (CAD) system, agency service delivery advanced communications technology, financial incentives, and the use of revenue mile in regard to service output.

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  • https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3c77b9wd
• Record URL:
  • https://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3A%2F13030%2Fm5rr20z3/2/producer%2FPRR-2003-01.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: January 2003. California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Berkeley CA. Remarks: Also available online through the PATH web site. Format: website
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 3715 McClintock Avenue
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089-0193

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Authors:
  • Dessouky, Maged
  • Palmer, Kurt
  • Abdelmaguid, Tamer
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: vi, 57 p.
• Serial:
  • PATH Research Report
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • ISSN: 1055-1425

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Paratransit services; Technological innovations
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00941644
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PRR-2003-1
• Files: PATH, TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 1 2003 12:00AM